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I think your parent is exaggerating, but they do have a point. I can't point you to a concrete example off the top of my head, but there is quite a bit of anti-
by tom_mellior 7y ago
I think your parent is exaggerating, but they do have a point. I can't point you to a concrete example off the top of my head, but there is quite a bit of anti-GPL sentiment in (parts of) the LLVM community. Apple I think is somewhat invested in spreading FUD about the GPL. I once spoke to some LLVM developers from Apple who said that they didn't believe they were allowed to look at the assembly code emitted by GCC, for copyright reasons. Which is strange since GCC explicitly does not claim copyright on its output.
- EliRivers 7y agoI think your parent is exaggerating, but they do have a point. I can't point you to a concrete example off the top of my head, but there is quite a bit of anti-GPL sentiment in (parts of) the LLVM community. That's why the LLVM people won't switch over to GCC, sure. But what do the GCC people think of it? If they're content to keep working on GCC, what's going to change such that they want to stop? I could imagine that if the LLVM group gets orders of magnitude ahead (seems unlikely - thus far, they seem to be mostly keeping up with each other in terms of performance and so on - but it could happen), GCC might start to be seen as a niche piece of legacy software and start to head towards retirement. Any other obvious pathways for the end of GCC?
- tom_mellior 7y agoSorry, I should clarify: I think the OP had a point about licensing being a big factor in LLVM's uptake and especially its adoption by the likes of Apple and Google. I don't agree with the OP that this implies that GCC will be abandoned.